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Australia’s construction sector will have the capacity to build one million new homes over five years, Housing Minister Julie Collins says, as builders question whether the industry has enough workers to carry out the ambitious plan.
Industry groups also say the construction sector could reach that million home goal at a stretch, but fear red tape and tweaked industrial relations laws could hamper those efforts.
Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) plan is all but certain to pass into law after the federal government reached a deal with the Greens committing a total of $3 billion to the construction of new social and affordable housing.
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